Once you get rid of the Norton firewall and can "see" the other machines on
the network (the four devices probably being your router, Vista PC and 2x
Win Me PCs) you should have no problem with your Win 7 machine accessing
files on any Win Me shares, you should also be able to communicate both ways
between your Vista and Win 7 machines. Similarly if you were to have a
machine running XP you would also be able to establish two way
communication.

Nevertheless I would have thought that you should be able to configure
Norton's firewall to permit access. Surely there has to be a setting or
option on it that identifies blocked machines and allows you to permit
access?

And now to bed ...
--
Mike M


Rockytsquirrel wrote:

Greetings Mike,
Yep, first thing I found is NORTONS firewall has totally blocked
all LAN connections, NORTONS says there are 4 devices on the
network but without the IP address and connection machine name it
will not open the path.. As Noel suggested I'm looking for a way to
shut down the firewall, but it may take a while for me to get
famililar enough with it to find the correct settings.

Ever since Peter Norton sold his company its been in a downward
spin...
I was hoping to keep things as they were on this new machine till I
got a better understanding of how it works but if this is any
indication I may not be able to wait. ;-)

Mike, as for the networking and file sharing, the ME's don't need
to access the win 7 machine, I was just wanting the win 7 machine
to link with the ME's so I could move all the txt files and html's,
jpg. mov, and the like to the newer system..

(the newer machine can burn DVD's ;-) which helps with
backups)
tks again for all the feedback